Validity Quotes

• Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ideas
  • Judging
  • Experiments

• We have to be very clear about what we're doing to our music. We're giving away free albums. Now think about the psyche of the ordinary man, we don't respect anything that's free. Anything that we get easy has no validity.

  

  David Banner
  • Music
  • Giving
  • Validity

• You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • True
  • Ideas
  • Judge

• It’s hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you’re scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.

  

  Edmund Bourne
  • Belief
  • Accept
  • Validity

• Every convention will outlive its validity.

  

  Njabulo S Ndebele
  • Convention
  • Validity
  • Outlive

• Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

  

  Alan Feduccia
  • Birds
  • Dinosaurs
  • Validity

• The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Nature
  • Names
  • Taxes

• What we have called the "law" of creation, therefore, is both compelling (laws of nature) and appealing (norms), and the range of its validity can be both sweeping (general) and individualized (particular).

  

  Albert M. Wolters
  • Law
  • Creation
  • Validity

• The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Reason
  • Triumph
  • Casts

• For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Force
  • Opinions
  • Triumph

• Let's assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition?

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Future
  • Transition
  • Validity

• It really does not matter whether one believes a mystical entity created the universe 5,000 or 10,000 million years ago - both are equally irrational, unsubstantiated claims of no fundamental validity.

  

  Harry Kroto
  • Universe
  • Entity
  • Validity

• The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Belief
  • Values
  • Willingness

• We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Experience
  • Philosophy
  • Devotion